SinisterTHE SET-UP couldn’t be more cliched if the hero were actually moving into a house where a grisly murder once took placeFri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
The faculty fatheadIT IS QUITE an achievement to build a film around insular, self-absorbed literary twits – the sorts who bond over David Foster…Fri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
IFI screens Lenny’s oeuvreTo celebrate the release of Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did (see review, page 12), the Irish Film Institute will host a season…Fri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
Actors Guild blocks big BeastsAccept our apologies for already filling these pages with awards season news, but a controversy has bubbled up in relation to…Fri Oct 05 2012 - 01:00
We've swallowed Guinness festival hook, line and sinkerHow could we have been taken in by this level of corporate manipulation?Sat Sept 29 2012 - 01:00
Rage of Innocence: Iran snubs OscarsThe Innocence of Muslims controversy continuesFri Sept 28 2012 - 01:00
The CampaignTHIS VERY agreeable, slightly scattershot comedy arrives at a somewhat unfortunate point in the political calendarFri Sept 28 2012 - 01:00
Slovaks chuck Norris for bridgeThe Slovakian powers that be have rejected the result of an internet poll and named a new bridge in the country after something…Fri Sept 28 2012 - 01:00
FootnoteWe don’t have space for another moan about the vagaries of film distribution, but it remains painful to live in a world where…Fri Sept 28 2012 - 01:00
Hitch in Fox's get-a-gongFour months to go and we are already deep into Oscar gossipFri Sept 28 2012 - 01:00
Santa SangreALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY deserves his status as an avant- garde saintFri Sept 21 2012 - 01:00
Screen writerI’VE JUST WRITTEN a really good novel. It’s called Today I Sleep With Life, But Tomorrow I Will Awake to DeathFri Sept 21 2012 - 01:00
Sorry seems to be the most flexible wordDavid Cameron’s apology for the Hillsborough disaster was not the real thingSat Sept 15 2012 - 01:00
KeyholeKEYHOLE IS THE first Guy Maddin film that could, just conceivably (at a stretch) have been made by somebody elseFri Sept 14 2012 - 01:00
It doesn't matter how tanned I look. People still say, 'He turned the room sepulchral'From postpunk cacophony and misbehaviour in Australia to top-notch films and middle-aged fatherhood in Brighton, Nick Cave might…Sat Sept 08 2012 - 01:00
Welcome aboard the fine-print, foul-mouthed, low-cost airlineAM I imagining this or was there a time when Michael O’Leary’s foul-mouthed, hyper-arrogant swagger seemed robustly endearing…Sat Sept 08 2012 - 01:00
Double opening for Domhnall as Irish star risesREEL NEWS: You can’t put on your jacket these days without elbowing Domhnall Gleeson in the faceFri Sept 07 2012 - 01:00
Language of abortion debate secure in lexicon of controversyPhrases like ‘pro-life’ and ‘pro-choice’ have escaped their meanings in the propaganda warSat Sept 01 2012 - 01:00
SamsaraWhen Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi emerged in 1982, few punters knew quite what to make of itFri Aug 31 2012 - 01:00
A Few Best MenWhat does a poor old studio do if it doesn’t have a wedding comedy for the summer? It’s a dilemmaFri Aug 31 2012 - 01:00
Withnail at Monty’s gaffFancy a trip to a “horrible little shack” in a remote part of Cumbria? It sounds like the sort of the thing that might be free…Fri Aug 24 2012 - 01:00
Brilliant Davies brings a shine to DarklightThe regular jamboree of film that calls itself Darklight is currently up and running at various venues throughout the capital…Fri Aug 24 2012 - 01:00
The WatchTHIS IS, you may remember, the film that, following the killing of Trayvon Martin in Florida, was forced to drop the word “neighbourhood…Fri Aug 24 2012 - 01:00
Depardieu’s driving dishWhat would we do without Gérard Depardieu? If he’s not weeing in planes, he’s boasting about youthful indiscretions or saying…Fri Aug 24 2012 - 01:00
Sam on celluloidThe Beckett on Screen festival continues at Cinema West’s Mobile Cinema in Enniskillen Castle until August 27th.Fri Aug 24 2012 - 01:00
Director who helped invent 1980sObituary: Tony Scott, who has apparently killed himself at the age of 68, could be credited (or blamed) for helping to invent…Mon Aug 20 2012 - 01:00
Batch of assorted canes beats up British comic strip heroesThe post-war world of the ‘Beano’ and ‘Dandy’ prevailed for decades but no longer enchantsSat Aug 18 2012 - 01:00
My BrothersYOU COULD reasonably argue that Ireland is too small a country to host a road movieFri Aug 17 2012 - 01:00
The Expendables 2WHEN SYLVESTER Stallone released the first Expendables two years ago, one sensed the world nodding tolerantly, as if at an elderly…Fri Aug 17 2012 - 01:00
Taylor success triggers bout of below-the-belt stereotypingWE LEARNED a lot about what the world thought of us this week.Sat Aug 11 2012 - 01:00
O death, there is thy StingOne of the great masters of the smooth movie melody passed away earlier in the weekFri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
360WOULD IT BE indulging in oxymoron to describe a film as “grandiosely superficial”? All right thenFri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
Gasps as Gatsby lives up to his reclusive imageOne can read too much into news of shifting release dates, but the information that Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby has been …Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
She's got some bottleTHERE ARE plenty of reasons to recommend Jon Wright’s new Irish comedy-horror, GrabbersFri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
The Bourne LegacyYOU REMEMBER all those men who used to read Playboy “for the articles”Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
Jackpot/Arme RiddereTHE USUAL caricature of Nordic crime drama involves some grey middle-aged man (or sombre woman in a jumper) moping unhappily …Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
The Forgiveness of BloodJOSHUA MARSTON, the American director of Maria Full of Grace, makes another journey overseas with this tense, clammy drama set…Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
Screen WriterNOTING THE amount of popular culture that oozed into the ether during the 1960s, we have already come to accept that the current…Fri Aug 10 2012 - 01:00
Brand battles brand in slack Olympic idealDon’t mention that soft drink. And blank out the name plate of the hand dryer manufacturerSat Aug 04 2012 - 01:00
Should we be dizzy at Vertigo's rise to the top?The Hitchcock film has topped the only poll that matters – ‘Sight & Sound’ – a list that offers a strong argument for the…Sat Aug 04 2012 - 01:00
Director laid down the marker for iconoclastsOne of the oddest, most influential and most elusive film-makers died earlier this weekFri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
There and back again... and againBy now you will have heard the bizarre news that Peter Jackson has decided to stretch his adaptation of The Hobbit into a trilogy…Fri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
If a boycott falls in the forest...The threatened boycott of the Venice Film Festival by the Iranian cultural ministry will, most likely, have a relatively slight…Fri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
This kid's not all right, he's a dripONE MAY as well lie down in front of a rampaging rhino as attempt to halt the advance of the Wimpy Kid filmsFri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
Eames: The Arcitect and the PainterONE MUST BE grateful that nobody stoops to calling Charles or Ray Eames “the Steve Jobs of their day” in this diverting documentary…Fri Aug 03 2012 - 01:00
